When the body of an aged hotel owner is discovered amidst the ruins of a rarely-visited archaeological site by the Nile Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police expects it to be an open-and-shut case. But the more he finds out about the dead man the uneasier he becomes. It reminds him of an earlier death - the brutal murder of an Israeli woman for which he always suspected theyd convicted the wrong man. What begins as a routine investigation rapidly turns out to be anything but... orced into an uneasy alliance with a hard-drinking Jerusalem detective and a campaigning Palestinian journalist Khalifa enters a murky murderous world of greed duplicity intrigue and revenge as he goes in search of an elusive 2000 year-old mystery with the power if it fell into the wrong hands to plunge the Middle East into all-out war... panning the millennia from ancient Jerusalem and the Crusades to the Holocaust and the modern-day no-mans landof the Gaza strip from Cathar heretics to coded medieval manuscripts and long-lost Nazi treasure The Last Secret of the Temple is a thrilling rollercoaster adventure.
